Build Democracy in the Classroom: How Rapidly Should Desegregation Proceed?

Congress of Industrial Organizations, Washington, DC.

A brief as "amicus curiae" in the United States Supreme Court was offered by the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1953 during a school segregation case. The brief states that if the court finds segregation in the public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment, it would be preferable for the court to direct cessation "forthwith" rather than allowing "gradual adjustment." (NH)